Valere Aude eBook

Accustomed to the pompous pantomime of the orthodox
physician—­the gold watch and chain trick,
while pulse and tongue reveal their hidden records—­and
then the well known questions which call forth the
personal predilection in the fashion of disease and
diet, (prescriptions which are often not untinged
by the physician’s own proclivities), at first
the patient misses the old familiar presence.
If ill he must be, he expects that the process
should proceed from the outset on the old accustomed,
“strictly respectable” lines, and something
like resentment stirs him when, in place of questioning,
a physician presumes to tell him at a glance
the substance of his malady unasked.

But such is the method of real efficiency and such
the qualification of the men who practice the new
philosophy which shall save the world from shams.

Facial diagnosis is the determining factor
of the logical and never failing science of natural
therapy which is coming to the rescue of mankind,
in spite of legal and commercial obstruction.

The “Clinical Eye" is, emphatically,
not the sad old “Eye of Faith”
which has sent its millions to their doom, but the
sober, steady, practiced introspective hopeful
eye of knowledge and experience.

The external symptoms visible to the clinical eye
of a physician worthy of the name, vastly outweigh
in important significance, all the objectionable detailed
examination of parts and organs which from long use
has become the habit of the old-school practitioner.
Moreover the swift impressions gathered under the
clinical eye are spontaneous and reliable whereas,
as the result of questioning or the description of
the patient, they possibly are not, but rather represent
too often some preconceived notion of alleged heredity
or devotional pessimism, sometimes original but more
probably the suggestion of relatives and friends.

The subject is a vitally important one and, with a
view to clearing away the obstruction of old superstitions
from the mind of the reader, I shall trespass upon
my allotted space in order to give a brief extract
of my remarks thereon as expressed in my greater work:
“Regeneration or Dare to be Healthy.”

DIAGNOSIS, PHYSIOGNOMY AND PSYCHOLOGY.

The biological healing system, based on the laws of
nature and the acknowledgment of the fact that no
two cases of disease are exactly alike, requires much
broader knowledge and much deeper insight on the part
of the physician than did the old-school of medicine
with its search for symptoms of special diseases and
its occult prescriptions.

Since the object is to get at the root of the evil
in order to regenerate the patient thoroughly, it
becomes imperative to obtain, what is hardest to elicit
from him perhaps, the accurate truth about himself
and his ailment.

And though expert in recognizing external symptoms,
it is unwise to rely entirely thereon and research
must continue into realms where the patient himself
only can lead us and where, willing or otherwise, he
is apt to mislead.